Course Outline
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Course Outline
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2.1 The Night Sky is Dark
2.2 On Large Scales, the Universe Is Isotropic and Homogeneous
2.3 Galaxies Show a Redshift Proportional to Their Distance
2.4 The Universe Contains Different Types of Particles
2.5 The Universe Is Filled with a Cosmic Microwave Background
3.1 Equivalence Principle
3.2 Describing Curvature
3.3 The Robertson-Walker Metric
3.4 Proper Distance
4.1 The Friedmann Equation
4.2 The Fluid and Acceleration Equations
4.3 Equations of State
4.4 Learning to Love Lambda
5.1 Evolution of Energy Density
5.2 Curvature Only
5.3 Spatially Flat Universes
5.4 Matter Only
5.5 Radiation Only
5.6 Lambda Only
6.1 Matter + Curvature
6.2 Matter + Lambda
6.3 Matter + Curvature + Lambda
6.4 Radiation + Matter
6.5 Benchmark Model
7.1 "A Search for Two Numbers"
7.2 Luminosity Distance
7.3 Angular-Diameter Distance
7.4 Standard Candles and the Hubble Constant
7.5 Standard Candles and the Accelerating Universe
8.1 Visible Matter
8.2 Dark Matter in Galaxies
8.3 Dark Matter in Clusters
8.4 Gravitational Lensing
8.5 What's the Matter?
9.1 Observing the CMB
9.2 Recombination and Decoupling
9.3 The Physics of Recombination
9.4 Temperature Fluctuations
9.5 What Causes the Fluctuations?
10.1 Nuclear Physics and Cosmology
10.2 Neutrons and Protons
10.3 Deuterium Synthesis
10.4 Beyond Deuterium
10.5 Baryon-Antibaryon Asymmetry
11.1 The Flatness Problem
11.2 The Horizon Problem
11.3 The Monopole Problem
11.4 The Inflation Solution
11.5 The Physics of Inflation
12.1 Gravitational Instability
12.2 The Jeans Length
12.3 Instability in an Expanding Universe
12.4 The Power Spectrum
12.5 Hot Versus Cold